WA Nationals' acting president keen to stay on

The acting president of the WA Nationals says he is hoping to be appointed to the role permanently.

The party has announced Upper House MP Colin Holt is stepping down as president after five years - he was recently made a parliamentary secretary.

David Eagles has paid tribute to Mr Holt and says he will be putting himself forward to replace him at the Nationals' state conference in August.

"It will be ultimately up to the party to select who the new president is but I'm very honoured to take on the role of acting state president," he said.

"We've got a big job to continue and obviously Colin's still around and we've got a very strong leadership team."

Mr Eagles says Mr Holt helped to oversee a transformation of the party.

"He really has been an integral part of our leadership team and having someone who's been a conduit between the parliamentary team and our lay party and overwhelmingly seeing the changes to Royalties for Regions and the successes, Colin's played a massive part of that," he said.